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April 6, 2015 - Davis Aurini
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Nerd Hour with The Bechtloff: 3 of 3

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Alright, we are recording again.
Okay, so, Pekwov, you want to get into this whole neoreactionary thing.
Well, I'm not a neoreactionary, despite the fact that a lot of people think I am.
I mean, I have some slight neoreactionary leanings, but I'm a libertarian through and through.
But I find I have a lot of neoreactionary listeners on my channel, and, you know, I'm friendly with a lot of them.
Like, I talked to the anti-democracy blog guy a lot on Twitter.
I liked the guy a lot.
Yeah, and I don't know if I am a neo-reaction.
I think Moldbuck's theories are very engaging.
They're quite excellent.
I'm not at all surprised to find out that he is a Catholic.
And he's basically quit blogging because he has a family to raise.
I don't know.
But I guess I've received a bit of flack from the neoreactionary community.
And I suppose I need to address this right off the bat.
It's a personal issue that doesn't really have any bearing upon it.
Alright, I'll spit it out.
What it boils down to is that I slept with a divorced woman because at the time I was operating under 19th century morality on divorce.
And by 19th century morality, the divorce was legal and justified, etc.
And, you know, it completely blew up in my face.
Presently, if I were in that situation, I would have told her to get back to your husband, you made a vow.
You know, so I don't know.
It was a mistake.
is not something I'm proud of and happy with, but at the same time it's, it was it was a sin of omission, not a sin of permission.
And it seems like a bunch of the neol-reactionary community, it's like they're angry at me for preying upon a married woman, which, you know, isn't what I was preyed upon by a divorcing woman, is what happened.
So they are rather cross with me for that.
And the thing is, I really can't say much more about it than that because it was, listen, the other people involved are not public figures.
You know, it's not like if you and me got into a huge fistfight, actually, you know what?
Me and that public figure did get into a huge argument recently.
Didn't we?
Oh, yeah.
Took me a second to think.
But yeah, yeah.
So that's a different scenario.
You know, and we've resolved our differences.
We're moving forward.
It's all good now.
You know, and I'm.
Bygones be bygones.
We are moving forward.
Things are getting done.
There's no reason to obsess about the past.
But in this situation, these are not public figures.
These are people that deserve privacy.
And I don't want to delve into the tit and tat.
I know some of them had a fight with Rouch here recently.
I mean, I work for Reaction.
So, I mean, you know, Rouch pays me.
On one level, I was like, well, I don't really have a dog in this fight, but on the other hand, Rouche pays me, so yay, Rouch.
Yeah, I've heard.
But I guess the guy on Twitter who does the Jokeocracy Twitter handle goes a rude tweet the other day.
Yeah, he Duck Enlightenment or something.
I mean, I like his tweets.
I follow his Twitter.
He's funny.
But he, I guess, wanted to write for Return of Kings.
As I understand the conflict.
And Return of Kings is phasing in this new policy where they want people to use real names, or at least names that sound like real names.
Like, it can be a pen name, but it's got to be like, you know, Carl Johnson.
It can't be like Duck Enlightenment.
Well, he wanted to use Duck Enlightenment, because that's his brand.
And they had a big hissy fit, and he started attacking Roosh afterwards.
Now, the merits of any of his attacks aside, it sounds like the motivation is, you know, Roosh didn't let him play in his clubhouse.
Okay, I've heard some alternative.
And I'm.
That's what I observed on Twitter.
There could be other layers to it I didn't see, but that's what I saw observing their tweets.
Yeah, and like, listen, I am privileged to have an account over at Rouch B Forum.
I think it's a really good forum with lots of great material in it, and I, you know, try and occasionally post stuff that is useful.
Not a huge, not a very popular member or anything like that, but I've heard some other sides of the story.
And see, I'm really not interested in taking sides.
You know, which sometimes men need to take sides, but other times it's sometimes people just legitimately disagree and get really angry at each other.
And I'm sorry.
We're fighting a culture war right now.
Anyway, this is just what I've heard.
I've heard that a particular moderator on the forum has been getting very aggressive, banning the sort of stuff that, on the one hand, he's being a little bit politically correct, but at the same time, the purpose of the Rouch B forum is not to be politically correct or politically incorrect in all forms.
Well, wasn't it the race realism talk he was banning?
I think it might have been.
And Rouge posted something acknowledging race realism that, yes, this is a basic fact of reality, that the races are subtly different from women.
Sometimes they're very different, on average.
You know, it's.
But there's also this element of extreme racial hatred that's online.
And, you know, I've spoken out against that a number of times.
Yeah, I said in theory I approve of white nationalism because every race has the right to exist.
But in practice, white nationalism often seems to me to be very angry and hateful.
And the Rouge B forum is supposed to be a place where we're realistic about women.
And now, yes, that means an element of realism, period.
The red pill or neo-masculinity means not being as not being a sissy, not being a hugbox baby that can't deal with the truth.
But at the same time, this is a forum about dealing with women.
If every third post is about race, well, what the hell is that?
You know, that completely dilutes the purpose and intent of the forum.
You know what I mean?
So I don't know.
Maybe the moderator was being a bit of a douchebag.
Or maybe people were trying to push an agenda which isn't necessarily a bad agenda, but would undermine.
Imagine if Gamergate showed up at the Roosh B forum and wanted to make every thread about SJWs and video games.
Yeah.
Fanhammer time.
Roosh B forum is not about video.
Like, there's a place for it every once in a while.
So, again, maybe I'm just a pussy, but I'm not going to take a stance on any of this.
I understand that sometimes people can be legitimately angry at each other, and that's okay.
I honestly think I could never moderate something like that, because I've run across too many heavy-handed moderators that just try to censor dissent and all that sort of shit.
On religious sites, I've frequented on geek media sites, and I just would err on the opposite side.
I would be way too free and easy.
Like, I know I posted some stuff on the Roosh B forum that I it felt to me like it was treading the line because I tend to take a more traditional view of the importance of marriage.
On the one hand, I think that, yeah, every young man should read Bang.
Every young man needs to learn game.
The more religious you are, the more important it is that you learn it.
But at the same time, I don't.
It's not the lifestyle I aspire to.
Yeah, I understand that.
I never read Bang, which I guess, again, I work for Rouch, so I guess it sounds odd that I haven't read any of his stuff really, but I already read a lot of the stuff from Chateau Artiste back when that blog was good.
And I kind of feel like, you know, I mean, there's only so much reading about game you need.
After that, it just becomes practice.
You don't need to read anymore.
You need to just practice it.
There's something that's been wrong with the Manosphere.
How many fucking posts about fucking negative shit can there be?
Yeah, I just heard a priest making that same argument, that the true Christian doesn't need the Bible.
But the Bible's just there to remind you.
Like, you already know what you need to be doing as a good person.
The Bible's just kind of there to kick you in the ass.
And I think that the greatest value of a book like Bang, I mean, well, two values.
The first, there's the opening your eyes.
There's taking the red pill.
Right?
And, oh, God, we've overused this metaphor, but to, you know, as soon as Neo takes the red pill and he gets kicked out of the Matrix, he's Neo at that point.
Now here's the question.
Is he going to do those computer programs to become a really good ninja?
Or is he going to do the slow route?
The book, Reading Bang, that's the quick route.
Bang, you've already taken the red pill, you recognize the reality of the world.
Reading Bang will give you that motivation to self-improve.
But once you understand the principle of self-improvement, you're already there.
It's anyway, so to wrap this back around to the neo-reactionary thing.
Now, I guess, like, partly they're angry at me because of personal decisions I've made.
And I constantly try and be a better person.
You know, like most of my most of my YouTube videos, when I talk about virtue and whatnot, I'm trying to live up to those standards.
That's why I record them.
I'm trying to be a better person.
Well, I guess when they were fighting with Roosh, they were constantly like, Oh, he's a degenerate because he just sleeps around and stuff.
And, you know, that's not how I live my life.
But at the same time, half the time when they're bitching about that, from some of them, not all of them.
I'm sure most of them are just happily married.
But a lot of them, they just sound like they're fucking jealous.
Yeah.
Like, you should be having a wife and kids.
Why is that?
Well, because I did that and I fucking hate my life.
Yeah, again, it sounds like Luke Hill Conservatism.
Exactly.
We talked about that before on a podcast a while back where I said I read this article by a pastor or something on why you should have kids, and it sounded a lot like a guy who regrets the fact that he had kids, wanting everybody else to be as miserable as him.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't have kids, but you wouldn't want to have them after you read that article.
Well, it's they're targeting these public sins of other people, which is what kind of frustrates.
Like, listen, that situation I described, you know, dating that divorced woman.
The mistakes I made there were not the mistakes that you might think based upon the public perception.
You know, like, just knowing the surface details of that, my mistakes were not the obvious narrative.
And the same thing with Roosh.
Now, Ruth, if you want to attack Roosh, let's say, let's say, Beckloff, you want to attack Rouch, what are you going to go after?
What's the most obvious flaw in his personality?
I don't know.
He sleeps with a lot of women?
Yeah, just being a quagmire-type guy.
Which, of course, I didn't say, because remember, Roosh signed my checks.
Oh, I've got an immense amount of respect for the man.
He's one of the best bosses I've ever had.
Keep in mind, when we talk about Ruth, this is a guy that got fired from his job because of feminists back in, what, 2008 or something?
2009?
I'm not sure.
It was probably like 2011, 2012 that I discovered him.
Okay, well, like, you know, Adria Richards.
Yeah.
Yeah, that bitch that got those two guys fired from their job?
That was Roosh.
He was that guy.
He was that guy that lost his job because of feminists because he had a blog called DC Bachelor, where he wrote about picking up girls at clubs.
And he lost his professional job.
I'm not going to say what I don't know how much this is actually public knowledge and how much this is rumored.
I'm pretty sure it's all public knowledge, but I don't want to, you know, provide our enemies with ammo.
But it was in a very technical field.
He lost his job.
And instead of going on the dole, instead of begging and apologizing, he decided to become Rouch V.
And so he went down, I think, to South America and started writing these travel pickup guides.
So this man turned lemons into lemonade.
And since then, I mean, like, this guy already had a comfortable life.
You know, like, Roosh in 2012, or 2010, was selling books.
He had a popular blog.
You know, and what does he do?
He starts Return of Kings.
Which is this clearing.
Now, there's people that criticize it because it's very listical.
I mean, I think my buddy Doc Illusion, way too critical of Roosh.
Like, yes, Return of Kings is very marketable.
But he did that.
We actually have a magazine.
Return of Kings isn't going anywhere.
We've got a magazine.
And it's a like the worst thing you can say about Return of Kings is that it's as dumb as every other magazine.
You know, there's an article today by like eight pieces of wisdom from Homer Simpson.
Yeah, that's not exactly Shakespeare.
I grant you that.
But it's an institution.
And they create reaction.
Reaction.
Which is also an institution.
Yeah.
And you're basically.
As much as they bitch about it, you know, reaction's not going anywhere either.
We've had two articles, one of which was funny, yay for me, that have gone viral.
And you want to complain to me that this guy sleeps with too many women?
I'm annoyed with the reactionary crowd that's like, Oh, well, go have a family and settle down and stuff.
And it's like, you know, have you looked around at the world around you?
That's not that viable an option for a lot of people anymore.
No, I'm trying to figure out how you do that.
Yeah, as soon as I figure it out, I'll tell everybody.
There's not a huge fucking pool of wife-material women out there.
Now, not to slam on women, because there's not a tremendous pool of husband-material men out there.
No, we're pretty terrible men.
But, I mean, for fuck's sake, I am, you know, you're getting dangerously close to the man up in married that slut territory.
Well, and we're talking about Anissimo.
I don't know if he likes or hates me.
I have no ill will towards him.
But and I even hate bringing this up.
But there are a lot of people, you know, like when him and Roosh got into it, there are a lot of people making fun of him for dating Rachel Haywire.
Because half her head is shaped off and she's a punk girl.
You know what?
She's hot.
Yeah, she's a crazy.
I wouldn't date her.
But she's hot.
And Anismov, like, what is he, like, mid-20s or something?
At least he's not dating a single mom.
Yeah, so what he was doing.
So Anismov is not Mr. Uber alpha male at the age of.
And I'm guessing, like, early 20s, 23 or whatever.
He's not the Uber alpha at 23.
Well, that's no reason to make fun of him.
I mean, he's a smart guy that posts smart stuff.
But at the same time, it's, why are you so willing to throw rocks when you look in a glass house?
And there's this general element within the neo-reaction.
Like, they are very, very quick to attack and condemn people that don't live up to their arbitrary atheist moral standards.
And it's utterly a standard based upon who their friends are.
It's a very tribal sort of a standard.
I mean, the thing is, like, I was famous for using the word degenerate.
And these people...
people have this arbitrary standard of what is and isn't degenerate.
So much of the neoreactionary movement to me seems like you're just jerking off.
Like, the Rorschach guy from Anti-Democracy Blog.
I've talked to him both on Twitter and.
I love his blog.
Really do.
And, you know, I've DM'd him on Twitter and all.
I've actually been meaning to have him on my podcast at one point.
You know, seems like a really cool dude.
So if he's listening to this, please don't don't take offense.
But on his Ask FM, which I do follow, he had some somebody asked him something because he's a monarchist.
Somebody asked him something about like, well, how do you convince the people to adopt the king, right?
And he had some response where it was like, the king doesn't need to convince people he's the king or something like that.
And I'm probably butchering it at all.
But that wasn't the question.
The question was, how do you establish this?
How do you because even a monarchy exists at ultimately at the consent of the governed.
Well, because not the consent, I would say, but the belief of the governed.
You know, because ultimately, if enough of them decide we've had enough of this guy, they'll drag his ass into the guillotine.
You know, he's not fucking Superman.
He's just a man.
You know, all dictators have to convince, have to either frighten or convince enough of the people to go along with them.
And that same is true of any form of government.
Ultimately, the people have the power.
By sheer numbers.
This is my big worry about the neoreactionaries, is that they are making up a club rather than making a political difference.
Yeah, are you trying to establish something or are you just jerking off?
I mean, and as a libertarian, you know what I see that all the time in the libertarians?
You know, are you actually trying to reach out to people and convince people why you think this is how things should be structured?
Or are you just fucking jerking off?
You know, there's a guy.
Well, there's a time and a place for jerking off, but you do that too much and you go blind.
As the old wives tale says.
You know what?
It really bothers me that they.
This moral righteousness they're trying to promote.
I mean, this is ironic because they're the biggest critics of Protestantism, but it's a very Protestant concept.
If you just follow our clubhouse rules, you're righteous.
And if you go against them, you're degenerate.
Guess what?
Guys, you're all degenerates.
We're all pieces of shit.
We're all idiots.
Have you ever looked up the list of cardinal sins in the Catholic Church?
I can't say I have, but I'm not a Catholic, so.
Good luck.
Good luck not committing a cardinal sin.
Well, that's the whole point of Christianity, you know?
If you could just stop sinning, Jesus wouldn't have been nailed to that tree.
Yeah, yeah, it's when it goes fast.
And this is supposed to be one of the principles of neoreactionary philosophy: is that it's when you try and institute public morality, when you try and take these metaphysical laws and put them down into public law, everything goes to the fuck.
And yet that's exactly what they're doing, where they're black and white.
This black and white morality they're foisting upon people, and they're just trying to create their own little clubhouse.
And then, you know, then they start introducing words like Ganon.
Have you heard this Ganon?
Yeah, as I understand the definition of that, it's for, I guess, the atheist corner of neoreactionary.
They need a placeholder for God, as they put it.
Because ultimately, there's no morality without a God of some sort.
Whenever I hear an atheist even use words like morality or even a word like should, I'm like, you don't really get to use that word.
Well, I bring up Gurdel's incompleteness theorem, but that's.
Geez, that's a book I'm trying to write.
I mean, if there's no.
If there is no god of some sort, there is no right and wrong.
Period.
They are really turning it into a bloody clubhouse as opposed to a dialogue.
And are you familiar with Trannygate?
Trannygate?
Trannygate.
I'm pleased to say I don't believe I am.
Okay, good for you.
Well, you know Justine Tunney, right?
Yeah.
I know of her.
I follow her on Twitter.
I've read some of her stuff.
One of the few trainings I'll actually call her.
You know what?
That's exactly my stance on things.
Justine looks like a woman.
She doesn't.
She actually does not make a big deal about being a transsexual.
You know, it's just kind of like a fact.
You know, it's like the fact I'm Canadian.
You know, it's about that substantive.
And she seems to be doing a lot of cool, productive stuff with her life.
And she's not one of these SJW gender feminist friggin' sexual degenerate weirdos that just wants to post pictures of their assholes on the internet.
I get the feeling that Justine would not make a big stint if I if I called Justine him.
So that's why I'm willing to humor Justine and call her her.
I just I get because I don't I don't I like Justine but I don't approve of transsexualism.
I think it's a mental illness.
I think these people need therapy and are they need therapy not surgery.
But I am a libertarian.
You know I believe you have the right to run your life and that includes the right to run it in the ditch.
So I'm content to just say okay fine that's, that's Justine's business.
You know there's a Catholic priest by the name of Robert Barron that I brilliant, brilliant guy, and he was talking about how the Pope has been very soft about a lot of things and he was putting it this way, like, given how broken modern society is, if it's the church is supposed to be a, a medic tent,
and when somebody comes off the battle lines you don't check their blood cholesterol, you stop the bleeding.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So it's like, even even from, if again in the morally perfect world we would all be too busy fucking our wives and making babies to watch porn and like in that morally perfect world, then in that world then maybe Justine would be Justin.
You know, in this world, Justine is a person that I see doing a lot of good.
And just because her sin, her missing the mark, is more obvious than my sin doesn't mean to make it any greater or lesser.
And like at the end, like, what I'm trying to say is that you and me, as far as I can tell, we're roughly on the same level of shithead as Justine is.
So me complaining about what she does with her body is absolutely now Brianna Wu is an entirely different level of shithead.
Oh yeah, I wrote an article in reaction talking about Brianna Wu's game.
And at one point I pointed out, because she had had this tweet, or he had had this tweet, where it was like, you know, people just hate on my game because I'm a woman, and I'm like, you're not a woman.
And then I finally, after I, you know, hammered that point home, I said, but let's not harp on that, because if I had to make a list of the things wrong with Brianna Wu, her being a tranny wouldn't crack the top 100.
No, her being a tranny is a symptom of everything else that screws up about her.
It, him.
It's.
Fuck's sake, not even passable.
No, you've seen the video game that it made.
Oh, that nightmare.
It looked like if Rob Liefeld was asked to draw Bratz dolls.
Yeah, like major, major.
And plus the graph.
The graphics looked like a 32X.
Anyway, anyway, so to wrap this back around with Tranny Gauge, and I don't even like talking about this.
You know, kudos to Justine for being public about all of this.
Serious, major kudos to her for being public.
Because this is just more gossip on the internet about her personal life that she's put out there.
I'm in no place to judge her.
You know, She's no more of a shithead than I am.
And but the neo-reactionary community got into a huge uproar, a huge tizzy, because she'd written in very intelligent, well-worded, smart essays supporting neo-reactionary philosophy, and yet she was obviously not Jesus.
You and I are also not Jesus, but it's more obvious that she's not Jesus.
Yeah, how do you intend to grow a movement when you're turning people away at the door?
Precisely.
I mean, neo.
And not for like, not for ideological reasons, but for purely personal ones.
When Moldbug started writing, like, the whole purpose of Moldbug was not to promote an agenda, but to flip things upside down and look at them like you were a traveler from the 17th century.
So I ask you, imagine you're a traveler, a time traveler from the 17th century.
Who is going to offend and upset you more?
Justine Tunney, a transsexual who's gainfully employed and writes very erudite essays advocating for personal responsibility?
Or, yeah, like I'm sure the gentleman from the 17th century will lift his monocle when he meets Justine.
I remember Adam Carolla had a show on Comedy Central years ago.
It was in the time slot where Colbert was before right before Colbert was on.
Like right before his show premiered.
And he had skits on there where it was like Adam Carolla talks to 1770s guy.
And it was always like talking to some guy who looks like an American founding father.
And one of the bits was like, Adam Carolla talks to 1770s guy about women in the military.
And they cut to him and the guy's just laughing at him.
It was another one where it was like, Adam Carolla talks to 1770s guy about internet porn.
And the guy's sitting there and he goes, so you mean to tell me there's a device in your house with which you can see millions of pictures of nubile young women performing sex X?
Come, let's make haste.
Do it be hilarious if somebody did the reverse of that skit with a naive 21st century guy with no sense of history talking to a very erudite and educated 17th century guy.
That's actually brilliant.
I should maybe write these skits.
That's a brilliant idea.
Talking to 2015 guy.
Because seriously, the 17th century, you know that in the dark all cats are grey.
To quote Benjamin Franklin.
Good old whoremongering Benjamin Franklin.
Exactly.
That terrible man Rouge for whoremongering.
Yeah, really.
Roosh is in good company.
See, Matt Forney said this to me in a conversation.
I don't think he'll mind me sharing it, but what he says, the neoreactionary community really, a year ago, so that'd be 2013, fall of 2013, the neoreactionary community hit the mainstream.
They started getting reported on, and they did nothing with it.
Like, the.
I read political theory for fun, and I'm barely aware of what's going on in the community.
I'll go back and read Moldbug every so often.
But the community has become very insular and very tribal.
And they're inventing all sorts of new...
Like the same thing happened with the less wrong community.
Like, the same thing happened with the less wrong community.
Well, you know, people are so desperate for community these days.
We're so atomized.
We have none of it.
I mean, you know, you're lucky to have a small group of friends and maybe a girlfriend or a wife these days.
So people gravitate towards these communities.
And that's, you know, I mean, I got pushed into the manosphere, but I found actual real friendships from it.
The people I've met in real life, it's not, you know, like you and Matt and, you know, Aaron and stuff.
It's not just jerking off on a keyboard.
Well, the Manosphere has gone through multiple violent sheddings.
Like, the neoreactionary community gets into these long, protracted debates whether this and this person should be allowed to be a part of it.
Justine Tunney is the tranny gate, the that.
Whereas the Manosphere, like, like Matt Forney posted, uh, kill your manosphere idols.
Um, Rouge posted the death of the manosphere.
Like, it's the man, like, how to put this, it's you don't.
If you were trying to suck up and to write the sort of content that, like, if you want to be Mr. Alpha Male blogger, the Manosphere hates that, you know, as a libertarian, I understand a certain desire to keep something ideologically pure.
There are a lot of fake libertarians out there, and they annoy the fuck out of me.
A great example is Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck loves to say he's libertarian.
He's fucking not.
He's a conservative.
He's the Republican that sucks up the Libertarian.
Yes.
Yeah, he's about halfway between your straight neocon and a libertarian.
He has more libertarian leanings than, say, George Bush did, but he's not a libertarian.
Now, that being said, he is what he is.
I dislike the fact that he lies about what he is, but I don't begrudge him what he is.
And if he was running for office, I would probably vote for him before I'd vote for any number of other people I could think of.
But I understand the desire to not want entryism.
I understand the desire to not want wolves in sheep clothing in your mist.
But by the same token, not everyone, you know, there's no ideological purity that doesn't exist.
Yeah, there's no perfect Constitution.
I mean, the big problems with America is that the Constitution, which is yeah, I'll go on it.
Let's just say the Constitution is the best designed Constitution that's ever existed for a government run by men.
Yeah, but even the Constitution allows itself to be amended for a reason.
And even it's fallen to shit.
Well, I mean, we just ignore it now.
That's the biggest problem.
So what makes you think?
A contract doesn't work if all parties just ignore it.
Yeah, you've seen the same thing with the MGTOW lately.
Have you been following any of the MGTOW BS?
Yeah, that's...
Clary made a very common sense observation that, hey, a lot of these are just losers that call themselves MGTOW because they ain't got no choice.
See, I've been now, up until he did that video, I followed No Ma'am, which is the original MGTOW.
Go check out No Ma'am.
And Women's.
And Women's is bloody brilliant.
But aside from that, he had a MGTOW forum that he had going on.
And I'm a member.
I don't really post.
I'm not sure if anything's going on at the forum.
The problem with MGTOW is that, like, Ruch B forum game, there's a reason guys show up, to get laid.
When you're a MGTOW, one day you just stop showing up because the whole point of MGTOW is don't show up.
You know?
Yeah.
You know, MGTOW is just doing it's just deciding what you want out of life and going for that.
You know, even the idea that it means you swear off women.
No, it means you decide what are you willing to tolerate from a woman and what are you not.
You know?
It's deciding you're not going to sell your soul for pussy.
You know, that's exactly it.
I told my ex-girlfriend recently, you know, these are my standards for a relationship.
This is what I expect.
This is what I'm going to provide, but this is also what I expect out of you.
And she didn't like those standards, so I'm now single.
You know, I mean, like, I have basic standards for what I want in a woman.
And those are my standards.
I think they're quite reasonable.
And they're the kind of standards that this is what I can tolerate.
This is what I, you know, I'm not going to violate them just to be with somebody because being in a bad relationship is worse than being alone.
You know, I want somebody with compatible theological and political views of mine.
Not identical, but compatible.
You know, I'm not dating a socialist Wiccan.
No, no, but a woman's political views are not the same as a man's.
Yeah, that's why I said compatible.
When a man has political views, it's a statement of honor.
And I don't need somebody that thinks exactly like me because I'm already here.
A woman displays virtue or lack of virtue.
A man displays virtue by his word and whether or not he follows his word.
Women, words are less important.
It's actions that are important.
A virtuous woman will act very lovingly, even while she votes Democrat.
And then there's certain things that are just red flags to me.
Like, I'm not dating a single mom.
I'm not fucking doing it.
You know?
Because I think single moms are fucking trash.
And I don't mean the divorcee or the widower or the widow.
I mean the fucking dumb single bitch that got knocked up and kept the baby and raised it herself.
Didn't get it to an adoption agency or nothing.
No, just I'm going to keep this baby myself.
You're fucking trash.
And I'm sure there's exceptions to it.
Look, that's a giant red flag to me.
That's a red flag so big, smaller red flags orbit around it.
That you make a lot of bad decisions, that you were a poor judgment and character.
And I want no part of you.
Yeah, my personal standards, I will not date any divorcee, regardless of whether or not they're children.
From personal experience.
I'm a lot less likely to, but I don't know.
I mean, it could, you know, it's impossible the guy was just a shithead and he ran out on you.
I mean, yeah, you probably should have picked him better, but I'm like 90% certain I wouldn't date a divorcee.
Let me put it that way.
I'm not ruling it out.
But if you got a little fucking bastard, you know, I'll see you in hell.
Yeah, you know what?
I've never been divorced.
And so, to put it bluntly, yeah, I've screwed up a lot of things, but I never screwed up marriage.
You know, I've screwed up a lot of things, too, but I've never brought a little bastard into the world.
Because I know they sell cottons at the store.
I mean, I don't know if this is some sort of grandiose fucking secret to my generation, but I mean, the single mothers wouldn't be so bad if they would admit that they made a mistake, but they merit a merit badge.
Like, it's fucking pride.
It's their fucking identity with a lot of them.
It's their fucking identity.
If I met a single mother that said, I screwed up, I shouldn't have gotten pregnant, but I would not have an abortion, and I could not give my baby up, and I know that I am not like I know I'm a failure, but I'm trying to make the that's a whole different stuff.
Good luck finding that, though.
And here's where I have to stick around.
Here's where I say I have slight neoreactionary leanings.
Yes, I'm very libertarian.
And, you know, but there's a difference between the government and society, the government and culture.
I probably want a.
I would want to see a culture that's very similar to what a lot of the neoreactionaries do.
I just don't think it's government's role to enforce that in most cases.
Well, could I introduce another one that really just drives me up the wall?
world building.
I mean about five years ago I was very fascinated with the whole basically when I went through my whole red pill transformation when I realized how treacherous government was like I served as a public servant for seven years and then got stabbed in the back by the the very system that was supposed to be just.
We're not talking a speeding ticket.
We're talking $10,000 to prove that I was innocent when I was obviously innocent because of bullshit bureaucracy.
So after that, I went through an anarcho-capitalist phase where I was so I felt so betrayed by the government that I'd risked my life for that I couldn't trust anything.
But the problem with the narco-capitalists and the problem with the neo-reactionary movement and the problem with so many of these jerk-off groups on the internet is that they're engaged in world-building.
Now you play Dungeons and Dragons, right?
And world building in Dungeons and Dragons is so much fun.
When you imagine you imagine a new history and you imagine new like bloody hell, like you've read Broken Roads, it's world building.
I'm imagining a world where basically my protagonist gets to be a cowboy with a M16.
I gotta geek out for a second.
When I used to do Dungeons and Dragons, I actually took, and I called them different things, but I had a version of Christianity and a version of Islam in that world.
And like I had your typical kingdoms based mostly off race, but I had a kingdom based that was like a Christian-style theocracy and one that was a Muslim-style theocracy.
And I had a republic based loosely on America that I argued like was so ridiculously diverse, you know, racially and ethnically and culturally, that literally the only thing that held it together was it was more of a trade syndicate than anything else.
Like everybody went there to do business because they were the prosperous people.
But if prosperity would disappear, this thing would rip itself apart.
And it's it's fun world building.
Yeah.
It's not productive.
I mean, if you're if you're world building to tell a story, to explore concepts, it's wonderful.
But there are so many people that are world building to push to do their thing to I mean the the anarcho-capitalists are really the worst.
No, I'm not going to say that.
Listen, anarcho-capitalist theory is worth studying.
It is really worth investigating and studying if you're remotely interested in economics.
There's a lot of brilliant work there.
But at the end of the day, you have a bunch of people pontificating about how we could have the internet and how we could have highways in an anarcho-capitalist state.
Okay, how do we get there?
You're not imagining an anarcho-capitalist state on Mars when 20 scientists land there.
You're imagining trying to turn the United States into an anarcho-capitalist society.
Yeah, that's the thing with the neoreactionaries to me.
So many of them are like, well, if we had this, you know, just patriarchal king, and I'm like, yeah, but who picks that guy and then how does he get in charge?
Well, the the real point of neo-reactionist neoreactionary political theory is supposed to be that power and responsibility need to be wedded.
The problem is right now is that power and responsibility are completely separate, completely riven apart.
Like we're not going to have a king of America.
Oh, we sort of do, Obama.
That's what I mean.
I mean, right now, what do you got?
You've got a ridiculously powerful executive office, and it's been building up before him, but who just fucking decides he can write law with the stroke of a pen.
But he has no responsibility.
Well, yeah, because he's out of office and doesn't have to deal with the law.
He doesn't have to do it for life.
But at the same token, I mean, yeah, we truly have the worst of both situations here.
We have someone with the power of a king who gets to leave at the end of his term.
At least the king has to worry about if things go really bad, maybe they'll drag my ass to the guillotine.
And I mean, listen, if you want.
If you just want a moral escape.
You know, like, if you're an anarcho-capitalist, that's a moral escape.
You don't vote, and you only pay the traffic fines because they'll shoot you if you don't.
Yeah, as a Canadian, it's like, well, I'm a neo-reactionary monarchist, so even though the monarchy is making no goals to retake the country, I'm just going to support that pipe dream because that way I don't have to fight in the real world.
That's fine until you start twisting the whole concept into a popularity club.
And you know what?
Speaking of anarcho-capitalists, I've got to mention a guy that's doing a lot of good in the world.
Are you familiar with Christopher Cantl?
I'm not, actually.
Great dude, has an excellent YouTube, podcast, etc.
Anarcho-cap who regularly shows up at the legislature in Manchester, New Hampshire to get laws passed increasing freedom.
By his personal philosophy, he's anarcho-capitalist.
In the real world, he is advancing the libertarian cause.
You know, a lot of people in the manosphere and alternative right now, and they're like, don't vote.
Don't ever vote, right?
And I get where they're coming from that.
And I've often taken it to say, like, I vote, I just, I don't ever give my hopes up about it.
You know what I mean?
I figure out who best reflects my values if indeed such a person is remote.
You know, I mean, if it's, if there's no one to vote for, I don't.
But if I'm like, that person would definitely be better than that person, I go and I vote.
But I'm not going to sit here and be like, that person is the savior.
You know, that person will fix everything.
It's more just like I do what I can.
I have this minuscule amount of power.
And yeah, it doesn't really mean jack shit.
And odds are, you know, if anybody who could really fix shit got on the ballot, they'd throw my votes away.
I'm still convinced in, you know, the 2012 primary, a lot of Ron Paul votes went in the trash.
But still, I go out and, you know, it's a few minutes out of my day, you know.
There you go.
You can't say I didn't do it.
Well, John C. Wright pointed out that as a Christian, you're commanded to hope.
And refusing to vote is giving up on hope.
Yeah, in fact, this past election in 2014 was the first election of my adult life I didn't vote.
And the reason I didn't vote was I had two choices between governor in my state.
Both were absolutely atrocious.
It was, you know, which dog turd would you rather put in your mouth.
The guy running for my Congress, Joe Pitts, I kind of like him, but he was in no danger of losing.
And then my local state, my local legislator, for my state legislator, he was running unopposed.
And that's fucking insulting.
I feel like I'm voting in North Korea when I'm voting for somebody who's running unopposed.
If I'd have known that, I'd have fucking thrown I'd have told like nine of my friends to write me in.
Maybe I'd have won because no one would have voted for the unopposed guy.
But I didn't bother, you know, leaving the House that evening for it.
I was just like, you know, that's a fucking waste.
But yeah, when the presidential election comes along, you know, I'll vote.
You know, and if it's a fucking Bush vs. Hillary, I'll fucking, I don't know, write my own name in at a protest, but I'll at least take a minute to protest.
I still think you should vote Hillary.
And I know Bernard Chapin's really angry at me for this, but if the Republicans have the futzpah to put Bush on that ballot, Bush is going to destroy the country too, just not as quickly.
Vote Hillary.
At least she destroys it quickly enough that people might wake up.
But you know what?
Listen, this is not about a one-size office.
One-size-fits-all solution.
It's about doing something.
Doing something in your individual life.
Your individual life matters.
And that's cynicism.
How many people were cynical about Obama?
You know what?
If 20% of the population that was too cynical to vote, but that knew that Obama was a slimeball, if they voted for Romney, who was also a slimeball, that would have started moving things in the right direction.
And you know what?
Maybe the system is rigged, and maybe your vote goes right in the fucking trash.
But at least you did it.
You know, I mean, you know, when I stand before my maker, I don't have to give an account for how the whole fucking system was run.
I just have to give an account for whether, you know, whether I was a good little cock in it.
Damn straight.
You know, it didn't run off the rails because of me.
You did what you could.
I can't remember who it was, but there was an actor who once talked about how, like, even though he's been in all kinds of shitty movies, he always gives it his all.
Because he's like, I always want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, at least this movie didn't suck because of me.
That's such a great piece of advice.
You know, it reminds me of, it's a line from Player of Games by Ian M. Banks.
Basically, basically, a sci-fi chess master is going up against a young prodigy that he's afraid he's going to lose to after he's been famous for being a you know like sci-fi chess some other meet-up game he cheats to beat her in the game And when he does that, there is no glory in the victory.
Because he's just an old cheat.
And even if he would have beat her, now she's the prodigy that will beat him eventually.
And she never has to cheat.
He's just an old cheat.
Do you want to be an old cheat when you grow up?
When you're old, when you've got nothing but memories, or do you want to do you want to be a guy that stood for something even if it didn't work out?
Yeah.
You know, die on your feet.
And to wrap it back to the neo-reactionary thing.
Listen, guys, moldbuck is not a it's not it's not a plan, okay?
Like if you want a political plan, go check out the Rules for Radicals by Linsky, okay?
That's a political plan.
Yeah, virtue is not a political plan.
Truth is not a political plan.
Truth is a way of living your life.
Be better people.
Write about how we can be better people.
Write about how we can get the Second Amendment respected.
Write to defend the First Amendment.
Make the world a better place.
Like, we're not going to save the world.
That's not.
Listen.
Jesus already came to Earth, alright?
He already saved the world.
It's not our job.
Try and make the world a better place.
Don't attack your fellow travelers just because they're a little bit off course.
Quit jerking off.
Yeah.
I mean, it's easy to imagine the perfect state in your head, but actually trying like good lord.
Yeah, trying to do anything in the real world is impossible.
Nothing should ever happen.
It's so hard.
Yeah, that's what social justice warriors do.
They sit around and they jerk off about what, you know.
The perfect world where everybody is treated equally, nobody's judged, etc.
And they try and use threats and violence to force that.
And that's a lot of the meanness I see coming out of the neoreactionaries is very, very similar.
That you don't live up to our proscribed standard, so we're going to bully you.
Well, no, if you've got a better standard, then tell me about it.
If you've got a better way to live your life, you know, if you've got if you've got a more successful way if you think Roosh is degenerate, because he whores about too much, then you write a book about being better than Rouch.
Is that hard?
Yeah, and don't attack your potential allies.
Don't I mean I guess do you want to actually do something or I mean hey I mean I'm not a neoreactionary but I would take a neoreactionary paradise over over what we have.
You know I I'm a libertarian but I'm not an objectionist or whatever the hell they call it.
The Ann Rand fucking.
Objectivists.
You know, I'm not those guys, but I'd sooner vote for one of them for office than Obama or Bush or Hillary.
Both humility and hope are needed.
Humility that no, none of us have the perfect solution to fixing society.
And hope because we need to do what we can to make the world a better place, even if we don't really know how to.
Yeah.
Well, I I think we've changed the world for a better for the better.
I think we've fixed all the world's problems tonight, wouldn't you agree?
Oh, easily.
So just do everything we said, folks, and it'll all work out.
Any last thoughts, brother?
No, that's about it for me.
Yep.
Time for me to drink whiskey like a civilized man.
Take care of yourselves, folks.
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